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Dietary management of older people with diabetes
(2018-04-30)Diabetes UK's revised nutrition guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes, published recently, encourage education in self-management and include additional guidance for older people with diabetes. The ... -
Dietary Quality in Vegetarian and Omnivorous Female Students in Germany: A Retrospective Study
(2021-02-16)Vegetarian diets have gained in popularity, especially among highly educated women, and are considered beneficial to health. Comparative studies assessing the diet of vegetarians against omnivores are rather limited and ... -
Difference between how ambulance service personnel use paper and electronic patient care records when attending older people at home
(2015-04-01)In the course of our study, Research into Older people with Dementia and their carers’ use of Emergency ambulance Services (RODES), we have noted a difference between how ambulance service personnel use paper-based as ... -
Differences between stellar and laboratory reaction cross sections
(IOP Publishing Ltd., 2010)Nuclear reactions proceed differently in stellar plasmas than in the laboratory due to the thermal effects in the plasma. On one hand, a target nucleus is bombarded by projectiles distributed in energy with a distribution ... -
Differences between the sexes in knee kinetics during landing from volleyball block jumps
(2010)The aim of the study was to assess frontal and sagittal plane kinetics (normalized ground reaction force and normalized knee moment) in male and female university volleyball players when performing opposed block jump ... -
Differences in bone mineral status between urban and rural Chinese men and women
(2007)Background: Few studies have investigated differences in bone health and associated lifestyle factors between urban and rural populations in countries, such as China, undergoing rapid nutrition transition. Such a study may ... -
Differences in MAT gene distribution and expression between Rhynchosporium species on grasses
(2015-04)Leaf blotch is a globally important disease of barley crops and other grasses that is caused by at least five host-specialized species in the fungal genus Rhynchosporium. The pathogen R. commune (specialized to barley, ... -
Differences in risk factors between Black Caribbean patients with stroke in Barbados and South London
(2009)Background and Purpose— Risk of stroke is higher in black Caribbeans in the United Kingdom compared with black Caribbeans in their country of origin. We investigated if these differences were caused by variations in ... -
Differences of Human Perceptions of a Robot Moving using Linear or Slow in, Slow out Velocity Profiles When Performing a Cleaning Task
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-10-14)We investigated how a robot moving with different velocity profiles affects a person's perception of it when working together on a task. The two profiles are the standard linear profile and a profile based on the animation ... -
Differences on social acceptance of humanoid robots between Japan and the UK
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2015-04)To validate a questionnaire for measuring people's acceptance of humanoid robots in cross-cultural research (the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire: FSQ), an online survey was conducted in both the UK and Japan including ... -
A different approach of using Personas in human-robot interaction : Integrating Personas as computational models to modify robot companions' behaviour
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)The current paper focuses on a novel integration of the Personas technique into HRI studies, and the definition of a Persona-Based Computational Behaviour Model for achieving socially intelligent robot companions in living ... -
A different approach to university rankings
(2012-01)Educationalists are well able to find fault with rankings on numerous grounds and may reject them outright. However, given that they are here to stay, we could also try to improve them wherever possible. All currently ... -
A different approach to university rankings (WP)
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011)Educationalists are well able to find fault with rankings on numerous grounds and may reject them outright. However, given that they are here to stay, we could also try to improve them wherever possible. All currently ... -
Different aspects of the lived experience of intellectual disabilities
(2010)In this issue of Journal of Intellectual Disabilities the first three papers present different aspects of the lived experience of intellectual disabilities, and each of these is undertaken through the use of different ... -
Different classifiers find different defects although with different level of consistency
(ACM Press, 2015-10-21)BACKGROUND - During the last 10 years hundreds of different defect prediction models have been published. The performance of the classifiers used in these models is reported to be similar with models rarely performing above ... -
The different impact of attention, movement and sensory information on body metric representation
(2023-06-29)A growing body of research investigating the relationship between body representation and tool-use has shown that body representation is highly malleable. The nature of the body representation does not consist only of ... -
Different patterns of faecal egg output following infection of Scottish blackface lambs with Ostertagia circumcincta
(1995-08)Faecal nematode egg counts were monitored in 184 Scottish Blackface lambs during natural exposure to a mixed, predominantly Ostertagia circumcincta infection and 12 lambs were selected which showed consistently zero (low ... -
Different strokes for different folks : The bodymind approach as a learning tool for patients with medically unexplained symptoms to self-manage
(2018-11-13)Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are common and costly in both primary and secondary health care. It is gradually being acknowledged that there needs to be a variety of interventions for patients with MUS to meet the ... -
Differential and Common Signatures of miRNA Expression and Methylation in Childhood Central Nervous System Malignancies: An Experimental and Computational Approach
(2021-10-31)Epigenetic modifications are considered of utmost significance for tumor ontogenesis and progression. Especially, it has been found that miRNA expression, as well as DNA methylation plays a significant role in central ...